Distant
Distant adjective - Separated in space or coming from or going to a distance.
Usage example: distant villages
Surrounding is an antonym for distant.
Surrounding
Surrounding adjective - Closely encircling.
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Synonyms for Surrounding
Distant is an antonym for surrounding.
Nearby Words: surround, surrounded
Both words in one sentence
- Distant Finale: The last chapter in Absolution Gap ends with the Greenfly terraformers eating up entire solar systems and surrounding them with jungle habitats, slowly converting the entire universe into uninhabitable, green stars.
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The Heliopause, the farthest reaches of the solar wind, three times more distant from the sun than Neptune take that whole enormity, surrounding the solar system on all sides like a distant, distant shell, and shrink it to the size of a grapefruit.
Source: Literature / The Pentagon War
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